The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 1, 1930, Page 1

\ Business Man's Murder of Katovis! Grand Jury Approves the They Hope to ‘Scare Masses of Unemployed He to Organize and the. Militant Pickets Like Him. Answer Them on the Picket Lines! Build Councils of Unemployed! the Growing Fought FINAL CITY EDITION — Published daily except Sunday by The Comprodaily Publishing gg ., Company, Inc. 26-28 Union Square, New York City, N. Y. CONN. UNEMPLOYED Vol. VI, No. 283 COUNC In New York by mail, $8.00 per year. il $6.00 per year. SUBSCRIPTION RA‘ Outside New York, Price 3 Cents NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1930 Heise Caiinot Sélve the MANILA WORKERS Economic Crisis | In the beginning of the development of the present economic crisis, PROTEST AGAINST ATTACK IN GALIF, the imperialist Hoover administration used every available means of italist propaganda to conceal the existence of the crisis and its Two Are Murdered in New York IL DEMANDS Workers | DEMANDS WORK OR WAGES WHITEWASH FOR JOBLESS DEFEND T.U.U.L. LEADERS AT COP WHO KILLED BRIDGEPORT, MARCH ON CITY HALL AND effect upon the working cla: ; The attempts of Hoover to present American capitalism as “organ- | ized” against crisis proved to be a failure. Planned economy cannot be established in italist system. This can only be achieved under the rule of the working class as it is now being done in the Union of \Mass Meet Today As Reinforced Police Socialist Soviet Republics. It will be achieved in the United States when the workers and farmers take over power. Hound Workers | . "Discarded By Bosses; ) Listed As Suicides Thrown on the streets to starve, ced from industry and ¢ ant Manhattan’s di with hunger amid The proposal of Hoover to invest a billion dollars into the building 5 - gual sé ho ts of luxury, two old workers, industry, remained a pious bluff. From the reports of the Analyst of Call California Militia} potn years of age, were mur- Janus 1, we learn that for the first twenty days in 1930, building contracts were 1 per cent below the value of the contracts awarded for the same period of 1929, and are 21.9 per cent less than the total for the first thirty days in Janua 1928. This is natural. Many cities in the United States are overbuilt to the extent of more than 30 per cent. Under these cireumstances capitalism will not invest | Artillery “Ordered To Be Held Ready MANILA, Jan. 31—The entire even if the building trade workers | working class, and the students are lack of work. This same applies to the railroad |much aroused over the murder and |hounding of Filipino workers in its capital in the building indus for have to and other indus: ve dered by capitalism yesterday, al- though the pvlice records their death ide.” One was Hugo Edward Cc who had been paradix> vain, the wealthy Times Square d fc. months vainly bearing a sign: “I want work and ~...:cient pay to as Grand Jury Praises the Detective Who Gave STEVE KATOVIS DEMAND RELIEF FROM GOV'T AND BOSSES *t | headed by E. C. Unemployment Council Formed At Mill Gates Repulses Attack By the ‘Bosses; Whole Working Class to Rally for Demonstration on Feb. 26 Jury Foreman, Banker} ‘ er : ‘ t are Force Bosses’ Mayor to Hear Demands; Eject Police From Workers |Picketing Goes On; To, Hall; Refuse to Starve Amid Plenty and Will Continue Fight Hold More Memorials | pula, | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Jan. 31.—Forming an Unemployed Council at the mill gates, feces ae ae ‘| under leadership of the Trade Union Unity Lea gue and the Communist Party, over a thousand dent of the Bank of America, 44! ynemployed workers defied the police and city authorities of Bridgeport Friday, and stormed Wall St., and made up of other | Order to Murder The fake promise of President Hoover and his business council, that wages will not be cut and workers will not be laid off their jobs, | must tpday even be recognized by one of the leading reactionaries of the | A. B.‘of L. like Mr. Grady, at the Toronto Fur Workers’ Convention. | employment is developing at such a rapid pace, the pressure of the workers is so great that even the reactionary A. F. of L. had to come out in its recent survey of business condition and admit that in 24 cities 19 p nt of its union membership during the month of Janu- were unemployed, compared with 16 per cent in the previous month. The growing resistance of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. against the treacherous Hoo agreement and against the A.F.L. bureau- reed the federation to admit that 38 per cent of all the build- | ing workers organi in the A.F.L. are unemployed and that since | the month of September 700,000 workers lost their jobs in the manu- facturing industries alone. In face of this situation we find the spokesmen of American im- | perialism come out with a statement that unemployment in the first | few weeks of the month of January declined. This statement of Presi- | dent Hoover was sharply contradicted by Miss F. Perkins, industrial | commissioner of the State of New York, that cited figures of a sur- | vey of over 1,700 industrial establishments in New York state reporting | a further decrease in employment during the first half of January, 1930, Because of the diversity of industries in New York state we | must accept the New York figures as a general reflection of the em- | ployment situation existing in the entire country. Hoover’s réport reased unemployment is based only on certain selected industries. eals the true situation and the growth of unemployment. The st, organ of finance capital, of January 24, being interested in making capitalism recognize the true situation, characterized Hoover's | statement follows: a he incident (Hoover's report) raised rather acutely the ques- - whether the present fact of business depression is in any wise remedied or improved by optimistic official statements which are unsupported, if not flatly contradicted, by the most dependable statistics.” At the same time the workers must understand the meaning of reported small seasonal increase in production in the steel and auto- | mobile industries. This small fluctuation in production during the first | weeks of January does not in any way change or alleviate the crisis, on the contrar it accentuates it. The workers must remember that | the steel, automobile and shipyards are war industries, that capitalism | will be interested in keeping going at all costs. The seasonal increase of output of these industries during the first weeks of January is far below the seasonal increase during the same period in 1929. While during the month of January, 1929, the seasonal increase over the California, and the Ku Klux Klan and American Legion attacks on them at the order of the fruit and vegetable ranchers. Manila is placarded with posters calling on all to come to Luneta public square tomorrow to protest. A thousand students adopted a reso- lution of protest at a meeting on the university campus yesterday, with U. S. armed forces stationed all around to prevent their parad- ing through the town, as they had at first considered doing. Police Watch Workers. Petty bourgeois and reactionary labor leaders are hurrying to give the demonstrations as much of a “pink tea” character as possible, in (Continued on Page Five) SHOE STRIKERS UNCOVER A SPY Detective Firm Also Is Used by Miller Market | ‘At the trial of several striking shoe workers of the Schwartz & Benjamin shop which took place on Jan. 28, at Gates Avenue Court, the union reported yesterday, one of the gangsters, named Campbell, who is employed by the above shoe firm to terrorize the striking shoe work- ers, was cross-examined by the at- Workers’ Union, Buitankant. While on the witness stand this | gangster openly admitted that he is live on.” The well-fed capitalists passed him with cold eye, and he was founc yesterday, “2ad, a kitchen containing nothing but gas ie his dingy rooms at 177 Avenue B. On the talle was a ntice from the landlord ordering him to get cut because he had not paid rent, The second murdered man, Alex- jander Finkelstein, driven insane by |the agony and anxiety capitalism “pensions” its aged wage slaves with, threw himself out of a win- jdow on the fourth floor at 90 Bush- wick Ave. last night. Dozens of suicides of workless men, crazed by anxiety and hun- ger, zur every day in a'l great \cities. But the capitalist press does not “play them up.” It runs at |eross purposes with lies about Hoo- ver". “prosperity.” Send into The Daily Worker every ‘erime of the capitalist against the jobless workers! Raise the banner jof struggle for relief! Spread the isl.gan: Don’t Starve, Fight! Down | with capitalism, with its hell of |starvation and death! | Demonstrate! Daily before the [factories Demonstrate in masses F:"-zary 26! PICKET AGAIN AT MILLERS MARKET (Food Clerk Held on $500 |torney of the Independent Shoe} Bail in New Frameup | Another worker was arrested in business men, has hastened to set! its stamp of unqualified approval jon the murder of Katovis. The only reason the case was taken up at all was the tremendous | demonstrations Saturday and Tues- | day by thousands of New York | workers. The jury “findings” state: | “The January, 1 panel the Grand jury of this county in- vestigating the circumstances of the shooting and resultant death of one 2 | the shooting was done by police of- ficer Kiritz in the discharge of his duty; that he performed his duty in a way that reflects credit upon the officer and the Police Depart- ment of the City of New York and (Continued on Page Five) FASCISTS WANT Communist Paper Tells | of War Provocation PARIS, Jan. -Basing their wild tales upon yarns of “Soviet kidnap- \ers,” the French fa: | oring for a raid by police upon the | Soviet embassy, claiming that the | vanished leader of the Czarist white guard armies, General Koutepoff, is being “held prisoner” in the Soviet | embassy, which is absurd, of course. | The Communist paper, “L’Human- | ite,” repudiating such a conception s are clam- the bosses’ office at the City Lumber Company and the office of Mayor Buckingham. THROUGHOUT U.S RAID ON U.S.S.R, | ported at the CRISIS GROWING | | Steve Katovis, we have fond that| Jobless Must Organize’ s, | or Starve to Death | WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Secre- |tary of Labor Davis was forced to jadmit today that “employment con- | ditions are not so good in the build- ing trades industry.” | Davis has been juggling figures |to make it appear that there have ‘been increases in employment dur- ing the past week. The American Federation of La- bor, under pressure of the mass un- employment in its was forced | to announce that more than 38 per cent of the building trades union members are unemployed. What the A. F. of L. did not say is that in some cities more than 75 per cent of the building trades workers are employed. York pes- the New e of the to dispatch 1 sa simistic r ithe A, the optimistic statements president and Secretary Davi: | being whispered in certain c | that perhaps the labor etary has been trying to ‘put over’ a fast one | jon the employment statistics.” A Perkins and as contrasted with the f | | Electric immediately organized a Coun- cil of Unemployed, distributed hundreds of leaflets and copies of the “Daily Worker,” speak- jers addressing the jobless at the mill gates. The speakers were Lawrence erman and Ed Mrasko, the latter previously a worker of the General Company at Bridgeport jand candidate of the Communist | Party in the last city election. The | bosses dared to attack the speakers and leaders of the Unemployed | Council, but the worke: defended the speakers and physically com- pelled the bosses to retreat. Four hundred then marched on the City Hall, carrying banners: “We demand work or wages”; “We demand immediate government re- lief!” Squads of police awaited the dem- | onstrators, and attempted to prevent them entering the City Hall. But the unemployed forced their way inside, where the demonstration was even more militant. Among the speakers here was McLaughlin, the Gastonia defendant. The police attacked and a battle raged for half an hour before the police finally clubbed and forced the unemployed to the street. But im- mediately a mass meeting was held at 211 Spruce Street, at Workers Hall. The mayor sent down a dele- gation of the police chief and others, attempting to terrorize the meeting. But the unemployed ejected the Responding to an advertisement of “Help Wanted, Fifty,” over a thousand workers re- Lumber Company gates for two days. But the company hired only a few. = © The Trade Union Unity League? WAR OF JOBLESS - RISES IN EUROPE | | ——— |\Battles Rage Thruout German Cities | BERLIN, Jan. lent col- |lisions with police were received in }meny German cities today, starv- jing masses, ériven by hunger re- | belled inst misery, cold and hun- ger forced upon them by canital- ism under “socialist” government. The government admitted it was “worried” since the continued demon- strations take place as a result of a deepening economic crisis for which the “socialists” a. the head of the capitalist government have no solution but further starvation |of the workers. At aburg, undaunted by being driven from barricades during a |night of battle, the unemployed gathered in that port and stoned jthe police who attacked the gather- ing. The police opened fire and suc- ceeded in wounding two workers, one of them a 12-year-old boy. Here in Berlin, starving young workers, angered at the sign “Closed (Continued on Page Two) JOBLESS UNITE previous month brought the output of the steel mills to 86 per cent | still another picketing of Millers)as pure nonsense, points out that mayor's delegation! an “investigator” and is employed by the United. Detective Agency | owned and operated by Schultz & of their capacity, the seasonal increase during the month of January, 1930, brought the operation of the steel mills only to 67 per cent of their capacity. Market, 161st St. and Union Ave.,| such a raid would mean a rupture Bronx. The Food Clerks’ Union| jn relations and a rupture of rela- goes right on to win this strike,/ tions by such outrageous assault on The Daily Worker has not been | whispering but has been shouting out loud the fact that both Hoover A committee of five was elected, including Sherman and Mrasko and one World War Veteran who has Shapiro of 799 Broadway, N. Y. C. and Davis have been deliberately ly- AT GOOD MEETING PROMEEC Siac ca thes ie : ise despite the fact that the police sta-| established diplomatic rights of em-| ! ni dalibes eight children to feed. The commit-) ree in addition to that we must remember that the seasonal increase of | ‘This Schultz & Shapiro are the |tioned here killed Steve Katovis on|bassies would mean nothing else|iN€ about unemployment in an at-| tee visited the mayor, submitting |Join Communist Party: production in these industries in relation to the workers only further | same private detective agents who | Jan 16 than that the French goverament | tempt to forestall mass acti@n of the | gemands as follow: 9 worsens) the conditions of the workers and lowers their living standard. | were employed by the United Res-|"“Th5 ‘boss, whose business is| wishes to precipitate war against|@ToWing army of jobless workers. Fifteen dollars a week, with an | Mass Meeting Feb. 10 The Communist Party already foretold that capitalism will try to |taurant Association against the| mashed by the militant picketing | the Soviet Union and secks some ex-| In the present sharp crisis i” additional five dollars for every = put the entire burden of the economic crisis upon the shoulders of Cafeteria Workers. of the union and the disgust the | euse to provoke hostile relations. the United States, the main func- child, by use of a special fund Over 200 atten the worl This same agency was also em-| patrons show towards his murder| Meanwhile, the ridiculous “disap-| tion of Hoover and his fellow para- from emergency taxation on the Whemployed held yesterday htly increased production in the steel mills and automo- | ployed by the Miller Market of 161st | tactics, is trying to hide behind a pearance” of the white guard gen-, Sites has been to attempt to Hitle;:| = ee oenecehinevece ap cevieialies for Fourth St. headquarters ¢ biles factories comes only as a result of the further increase of ration- | St. and Union Ave., Bronx., where |hig sign, claiming his market is a! eral continues to be the excitant for PY all means possible, the severe pon.payment of rent; no taxation tion 1 of the Communist Party, | ization, speed-up and wage cuts. Only workers gain nothing from it; un- | the Food Clerks’ Union is conduct-| union shop. The Food Clerks are| ail eenundtele whe wishntosatiack nature of the ¢ i and the vast| of the jobles and defiance of |ttict 2. Out of this numbe: about employment is not decreasing. Only the speed-up and rationalization |ing a strike and where Steve Ka-| determined to prove to. everybody | the Soviet’ Union. . Firat, a 11-year extent of the growing army of un- vagrancy laws 40 joined the Unemployed Council further develop. Here it must also be stated that the very small in- | tovis was recently shot by the po-| that it isn’t. Leld boy told a tale of nscing the) employed. The mayor rejected all the de-, formed by the meeting, and 25 made crease of production in some industries, of which Hoover boasts, only (lice for picketing in front of that) The picket arrested yesterday is general kidnapped by a policeman{ While millions of workers were be-| mands, declaring that they were, @PPlication to join the Communist further sharpens the contradictions of eapitalism. It only further | market. being framed; he is held on $500, and a mysterious “lady in grey.” ing thrown on the streets, Hoover,| “unconstitutional.” A mass meet- Party. widens the gap between the productive capacities of industry and the It was also brought out that this | pail, and his trial comes Monday. ui Hatin onnehe eA Ana Klein, Barnes, Green, and ing is called for Friday night at). There swill larger mass meet- buying capacities of the masses. The situation will only further detective agency is specializing in} The union's organization cam-| dozens of people with vivid imagina- of other capitalist propagan-| Moose Temple, by the Trade Union 1 held, pe announced Eeaoe aggravate the and further undermine capitalism. | In light of the sharpening of the economic crisis, no worker must | be misled by the false statements of agents of the bosses. This is | only done with the purpose of diverting the struggles of the workers | against unemployment and capitalist rationalization. | The preparations for the February 26 unemployment demonstrations | must now be the main tasks of the workers. Only by militant ation of the employed and unemployed workers, only by following the lead- ership of the Communist Party and the Trade Union Unity League, | will the workers be able to resist the attack of the bosses and their | agents, the socialist party and the A, F. of L. SOVIET PUSHES DRESS LOCKOUT strike-breaking. Frame-Up Fails. At the Gates Ave. Court yester- day a yellow frame-up collapsed when two strikers were dismissed on charges of disorderly conduct made by. the Business Agent of the Boot and Shoe Union, Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald on the witness stand testified that the strike in the Leo Shoe Co., was callad illegally since the workers didn’t ask the permis- sion of the Boot and Shoe, that the (Continued on Page Five) ———— paign is proceeding well, and shops are signing up or continuing older contracts daily. Steel Bosses Pocket $258,000,000 Profits As Jobless Starve While thousands of steel workers walk the streets without work the United States Steel Corporation re- ports that it wrung $258,659,889 in | profits during 1929 out of its work- \ers. tions are reporting similar sort of “kidnappings” in all sections of | Paris, with scores of “mysterious automobiles” lurking about “myster- ious houses’ with “mysterious la- dies” in grey and other shades of apparel. | The plot has thickened, as Doctor Watson would say, by the discovery that the general had 50,000 francs on deposit in a loc | seemed to exist illegally as a fraud- julent institution. This was discover- ‘ed by a police raid on the bank. But | the general himself in still missing. | insisted that “business was | fundamentally sound.” Not one word was said about un- |employment. Suddenly, when the | bosses realized that over 6,000,000 jobless walk the streets and begin, to demand relief, under the leader- Unity League, for organizing the employed and unemployed together for struggle. SPEED KILLS 4; {ship of th Communist Party, andl ~ [ the Trade Union Un League, bad, but that it is now changing} for the better. Yet is Gastonia, job- (Continued on Page Two) y | é their tactics change completely. | JUDGE J AILS | al ‘bank which| 2hey admit unemployment has been | 19 Textile Workers Are | Convicted for Meeting on Febr Those joining the council and the party are the best proletarian ele- ments, from the main industries in this section, seamen, longshoremen and machinists mostly. The spirit of the meeting was wonderful, a de- \mand for struggle showing through the speeches of all those unemployed who took the floor in a general dis- cussion. They included both Negro and white wor $75,000 BAIL ON | ‘. Oy At th nt ti m than 30 Tee ceegeen eet oom i | Today in History of per cent of all steel workers are out| NEGRO BARED FROM OWN International NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Feb. 2. | the Workers of jobs. The mass of unemployed HOUSE. : Wireless |—While 19 textile workers were be- PONTI AG TOILERS eS steel workers are being organized! LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 31— N ing tried, fined and sentenced to oe is % Santa ® |to fight for unemployment relief | Superior Court Judge Vinci today | ews jjail here today for daring to resist Jee) twoCrack Soviet Fliers NTWIU Scores 10 Day February 1, 1924—National and participate in the huge interna-| ruled that Sally Trainor ,a Negro police attacks on the mill-gate meet- * , 4 to Scene | oer “T° general lockout and strike in | tional demonstration for work or! woman, could not live in the house (Wireless by Inprecorr) ings of the National Textile Work- Bosses Fear the Mass Beinn, Limit; Striking Now. | Sweden in wage dispute. 1922— wages to culminate on February 26. | she owns, “or permit any other non-| pRAVDA COMMENTS ON SPAN. €?S Union, speed-up machinery in | Jobless Council MOSCOW, Jan. 31.—Soviet res- | 800,000 German railroad workers caucasian to live there,” within the ISH FASCISM. the Potomska mill caught fire) § ad nt cue efforts will continue until Capt. Carl Ben Hielson and Earl Borland yre found either dead or alive, the Aoviet Arctic Commission declared While the Needle Trades Work- ers’ Industrial Union strikes dozens of shops, fighting: ceaselessly for | better conditions, for more wages, struck. 1918—General strike in many Austrian industrial centers to demand peace. 1905—General strike in Poland. 1840—Death Build The Daily Worker—Send in Your Share of the 15,000 New Subs. |next 99 years, because it is. within |one of the districts from which Ne- ! groes are barred. MOSCOW, Jan. 31.—The “Pray-|from running too fast and four da,” organ of the Communist Party, Workers are dying in the hospital of the Soviet Union, declares that | from burns. A the change in the Spanish govern-| The case of the 19 is appealed by DETROIT, Jan, 31 held Eleven work- ers are now in Pontiae on the charge of Criminal Syndicalism, | A * ‘ oday. Although the pl: against long hours and for real,| sentences against Frost, Williams, Hy atovis Murder ment will not solve the crisis. Primo | the International Labor Defense, the | the same charges on which Charles Sor amblian spate ab ec rank/and file union control, the In-| Jones and other British Chartist Mass Demonstration Against K {de Rivera failed to solve a single| mill-gate meetings will Bo on, a) C. Ruthenberg was tried in 1921. crushed on an island off Northeast- | ternational Ladies’ Garment Work-! leaders changed to banishment problem while he was dictator, On/@teat protest demonstration is be- The total bail is 000. Fred Beal ern Siberia, the whereabouts of the | vs proceeds, in cooperation with the| after violent protest demonstra- _the contrary, his policy only inten-|ing mobilized by the Communist is being held under $10,000 bail. men or their hodies remains a mys- | bosses and the police department, to| tions throughout country. sified the internal contradictions of | Party and the N.T.W., and the Com- Powers and Raymond are out tery. Two Soviet airplanes from Provi- dence Bay, piloted by erack Soviet fliers Slepnoff and Galishev, were due to arrive on the scene of the crush today. No word has been re- ceived from them yet. Meanwhile, local parties are be- ing organized by Captain Milovzoro, of the ice-bound Soviet steamer Staxropol, continued to look for the missing men. the enormous farce of a lockout dis- guised as a strike, with all the jcamouflage of strike vote, strike meetings, hiring of halls for strik- ers’ headquarters, etc. Schlesinger, head of the I. L. G. W., announces his fake strike will start Tuesday. There is no doubt that the work- |ers want to strike. According to all reports, wherever the Schlesinger company union saw fit to really (Continued on Page Five) |Three Fourths Miners of Michigan Jobless DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 31.—Only five coal mines are operating in Michigan, employing but 1,100 men. This is a fourth of the number that used to find work in the © “-aw and Bay City mines, in other years. Katovis’ Funeral. (Photo by P. n over 50,000 workers filled Union Square during Aprefsky, worker photographer) munist call for New Bedford work- ers to participate in the world-wide unemployment demonstrations Feb- ruary 26 is creating great excite- ment, capitalist Spain. The industrial difficulties, the collapse of the bud- get and the low rate of the Peseta, have caused a large scale social crisis. The new rulers will probably make some concessions to the petty bourgeoisie. The present crisis lays the basis for winning the majority of the working class for the Commu- nist Party under the slogan for a revolutionary “Workers and Peas- ants Government.” 30-Day Sentences. The meetings which the police at- tacked, and where they arrested these workers, were at the Dart- mouth mill, January 15 and 16, Af- ter a five-hour trial today the judge (Continued on Page on bail. All others, including Beal ; are still in jail. The campaign of the bos being directed from I the state capitol, and from Washington, | in an effort to prevent the mobili | zation of the mass of unemployed and employed workers to fight for work or wages under the leadership | of the Communist Party. A hearing | has a set for Wednesday, Febru A